What American accent do I have?

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The West
Boston
North Central
The South
The Inland North
Philadelphia
The Northeast
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To deny the possibility of a thing

To deny the possibility of a thing, without evidence to negate it, is as irrational as guaranteeing its occurrence on the basis only of its possibility. And yet things fail to happen far more frequently than they happen, so one can seem a savant merely by promoting negative probabilities.

The hearts of men and women (Hand)

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

Learned Hand

My mind is not closed (Dawkins)

My mind is not closed, as [has been] occasionally suggested...My mind is open to the most wonderful range of future possibilities, which I cannot even dream about, nor can you, nor can anybody else. What I am skeptical about is the idea that whatever wonderful revelation does come in the science of the future, it will turn out to be one of the particular historical religions that people happen to have dreamed up. When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I thought were cogent arguments against a supernatural intelligent designer. But it does seem to me to be a worthy idea. Refutable—but nevertheless grand and big enough to be worthy of respect. I don't see the Olympian gods or Jesus coming down and dying on the Cross as worthy of that grandeur. They strike me as parochial. If there is a God, it's going to be a whole lot bigger and a whole lot more incomprehensible than anything that any theologian of any religion has ever proposed.

Richard Dawkins

Try making some music (Rumi)

Today, like every day,
We are ruined and lonely.
Don't retreat
fleeing your emptiness
through the doorway of thinking.
Try making some music instead.

Rumi

Nanowrimo graph

Here's my NaNoWriMo graph. It will update automatically throughout the month (hit reload), showing my daily word totals.

Repetition

Repetition is the engine of aging.

Nanowrimo

NaNoWriMo starts today. I am going to take a tentative swipe at it this year, but with less seriousness—and hopefully less resultant stress—than in years past. Since plot seems to be my shortcoming in writing fiction, I'm going to see how far I can get without one.

If I end up getting into this, I will effectively disappear for the month of November.